Dead Ends

As an assistant in the UK's finest occult antiques shop, Sophey Cartwright is used to the bizarre, the dangerous and the ethically controversial. When Bezzina's Emporium of Magical Artefacts and Antiquities finds itself under attack from a murky organisation determined to ruin the shop's reputation, Sophey is confident she can help restore the shop's fortunes. But Sophey's mother plans to move the family abroad, Sophey's best friend Ariel is distracted by a cute girl with a mysterious past and the macabre artefacts crossing the Bezzina's Emporium threshold point to increasingly horrifying aspects of the antiques trade.Can Sophey work hard enough to save the shop before she leaves forever? Will there be a shop to save if her efforts aren't good enough? And why, when she looks in the mirror, is she seeing eyes that aren't hers?The second instalment in the Bezzina's Emporium of Magical Artefacts and Antiquities trilogy, Dead Ends is an urban fantasy about grief, friendship and the complexities of delving into history. For fans of Maggie Stiefvater and Discworld.